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Design of an Evaluation Tool to Assess IoT Solutions for Active and Healthy Aging

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XV Mediterranean Conference on Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing – MEDICON 2019 (MEDICON 2019)

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Europe is currently the oldest continent having the “old-age dependency ratio” - persons over 65 compared to the active population. To cope with this situation, the deployment of Active and Healthy Aging (AHA) services through IoT is becoming increasingly relevant, to make this population as independent as possible within their environment. This study presents the whole process to design and implement the “Public Evaluation Website”, a tool that will present the results and achievements generated in ACTIVAGE, a Large-Scale Pilot that implements Internet of Things solutions for AHA in 9 European regions and cities.

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The authors wish to acknowledge the partners of the ACTIVAGE project (http://www.activageproject.eu/). This project receives funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020, under grant agreement No. 732679.

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Cea, G., Gallego, A., Arredondo, M.T., Fico, G. (2020). Design of an Evaluation Tool to Assess IoT Solutions for Active and Healthy Aging. In: Henriques, J., Neves, N., de Carvalho, P. (eds) XV Mediterranean Conference on Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing – MEDICON 2019. MEDICON 2019. IFMBE Proceedings, vol 76. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-31635-8_126

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